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Sensible gifting took centre stage as consumers embraced practicality this Christmas

Retail Focus

New data from leading eCommerce provider Visualsoft saw that while overall Christmas revenue dropped by 4% compared to 2023, average order value (AOV) rose by 21%, reflecting the growing impact of thoughtful shopping and retailer incentives. Office goods saw revenue increase 35% as people look to kit out their space for homeworking.

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Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Home Furnishings Supply Chains

Retail TouchPoints

Government policies significantly impact supply chain dynamics evolving trade regulations, stricter environmental standards, updated labor laws and increasing technological investments reshape how home furnishings products are designed, manufactured and delivered.

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The Future of Shopping: What to Expect in 2032

Retail TouchPoints

By 2032, digital will be the most important area of their business, and sectors that today have remained relatively untouched — motor vehicles and parts, convenience stores, furniture/home furnishing stores, building material, and more — will have reinvented their digital posture and orientation.

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How Cloth & Company Saved Time and Money With its 3D Virtual Showroom Collaboration

Retail TouchPoints

Home furnishing brand Cloth & Company is working with 3D asset creation and management provider All3D to help even small retailers and designers overcome this challenge through the creation of virtual showrooms using 3D rendering software. Creating the virtual showrooms was a fairly intuitive process.

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Cross-Channel Home Décor Retailing: 5 Take Away Lessons from The Game Changers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

While brick and mortar stores still play a strategic role in this market vertical, online shopping has skyrocketed, and with $294 billion expected in online home furnishing sales by 2022, retail store owners can no longer afford to miss out on the opportunity to ramp up their cross-channel game plans.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 254 – Walmart and Shopify earnings and retail sales data

Retail Geek

And two categories that were down for the year we’re home furnishings and electronics which is interesting to me in a little surprising. Like an industry-standard estimate what what you do have you know again think about this December had a weird or shape than ever before it was way more e-commerce n trick.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 325 Amazon Q1 2025 Earnings

Retail Geek

I’m I’m very skeptical that there’s a lot of incremental ad dollars for a regional grosser with no third-party Marketplace or a specialty retailer in home furnishings with like. Scot [45:47]The shipping notifications were actually very clean uh everything was double communicated so I I got a you know so Amazon.